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Local Unemployment Rate Climbs
July 22, 2013
The latest jobs numbers show the unemployment rate held steady in Florida and fell in Alabama, but the local jobless numbers were not as positive.
Escambia County’s unemployment rate jumped from 6.7 percent in May to 7.1 percent in June. There were 595 more people reported unemployed during the period, for a total Escambia County unemployment of 10,156 people. One year ago, unemployment in Escambia County was 8.7 percent.
Santa Rosa County unemployment was up from 5.9 percent to 6.7 percent from May to June. Santa Rosa County had a total of 5,017 persons reported to be still unemployed. The year-ago unemployment rate in Santa Rosa County was 8.3 percent.
In Escambia County, Alabama, unemployment increased from 7.6 percent in May to 8.0 percent in June. That represented 1,173 people unemployed in the county during the month. The year-ago rate was 10.0 percent.
The jobless numbers released by Florida and Alabama do not include persons that have given up on finding a job and are no longer reported as unemployed.
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.1 percent in June, holding steady over the month, but down 1.7 percentage points from 8.8 percent a year ago. The state’s May and June rates were the lowest since September 2008 when it was 7.0 percent.
Alabama’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, at 6.5 percent in June, was down from May’s rate of 6.8 percent and was below the year-ago rate of 7.6 percent.
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7 Responses to “Local Unemployment Rate Climbs”
REGARDING:
“not everyone wants a minimum wage tourist job or a call center job.”
However, by not studying or learning better paying trades, many act as if the very most they might ever want in life will be minimum wage. (Others go to college while working at call centers. A job need not be a career unless you decide to stop there.)
In fact some act as if they believe they will be supported without working for the rest of their lives.
David for better people, more vision
Get a clue Chamber of Commerce and County Commissioners: not everyone wants a minimum wage tourist job or a call center job. You can’t collect enough taxes on people who don’t work or own homes anymore. Get some real businesses into Escambia County. Pensacola looks like a dump as you drive down many streets and if you don’t want tourists to see run down areas, build higher freeway fences!
broken records play over and over the same thing
Unemployment rates are not based on unemployment benefits but on people who are not working but desiring employment. This is determined by statistical sampling of households asking people if they are employed and if not then if they would like to be employed.
And yes, those who do not live in this county are not counted as employed here or unemployed here. It is based on residence. If I don’t work in Hawaii, that does not raise the unemployment rate in Hawaii. If people don’t live in Escambia County, that does not affect the employment rate or unemployment rae in Escambia County.
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@WalnutHillRoy
A lot of the young people are moving away, and the older people are dying. That’s why there are so many houses for sale.
The REAL question is, “What are the TRUE unemployment numbers?”
The current practice employed by the Presidential Administration is to base the figures on claims for unemployment benefits. What that translates into is when those benefits run out, the people are no longer included in the numbers as unemployed even though, in fact, they are no more employed than they were before the benefits ran out. So, if benefits run out for 5,000 people + 5,000 are still drawing unemployment, the “offcial” number of unemployed is 5,000 when in reality the number is 10,000!
Must’ve hired Enron’s former book keeprs!
“The private sector is doing fine.” Barry Obama
Three more years. :-/
Judging by the large quantity of houses for sale in Escambia County I would imagine that many people have left the area looking for work; they would not be included in the local unemployment figures either.